McCall, Idaho

McCall, United States

McCall, Idaho shares 29 connections with 2000 other places across 10 topics, spanning history, film, transportation, and outdoor recreation. Its connections reach California, Idaho, and several other western states, reflecting shared threads in frontier settlement and mountain culture. In 1914, the Oregon Short Line Railroad established McCall as a viable destination, and by 1938, Payette Lake had drawn Hollywood for the filming of the Academy Award-nominated Northwest Passage. A smokejumper training base opened there in 1943, linking the town to western wildfire history.